Find The Advertiser and Dave in this new novel Reviewed by David Marshall James This emotionally expansive, visually lush novel would have been irresistible as a screen project for producer Ross Hunter and director Douglas Sirk, fifty-plus years ago. Although Margaret Bradham Thornton’s first novel takes place during the early 1990s, it could have been […]

The Advertiser is celebrating a new writer coming on board. She is Kortlyn McPeek, who is fairly new to the area, her parents having moved to this county a year ago. Kortlyn is an articulate, vivacious young woman, two years out of college, and eager to use her writing skills for this newspaper. Our meeting […]

Cupcake/Lemonade Sale: Pink cupcakes and pink lemonade will be sold in front of Park Row on Friday, Aug. 1 from 10 to 2 by the Taste of Pink Club to support cancer research. Car Wash & Fish Fry: Moores AME Women’s Missionary Society will have a car wash and fish fry, Saturday, Aug. 2, from […]

Theatre for everyone! is a commitment of the Edgefield County Theatre. And in so doing, they are providing a Summer Theatre Camp for the younger set. It opened on Monday, July 21, to a happy, avtive group who started camp with some auditioning to know their preferences in performing. Their mission is to “provide a […]

Calling all Photographers: a group exhibit, September 18-October 17, 2014. Photos must be delivered to Edgefield County Library by September 15. To be held at the library, sponsored by Friends of the Library. Interested parties call 803-640-0625 or email laurel.blossom@earthlink.net Edgefield Farmers and Artisans Market: Town Square, every Saturday until November from 9 a.m. to […]

Choices- A Lifetime Development sponsored its 5th Annual Scholarship Banquet on Sunday, June 29, 2014 at 6pm at Old Macedonia Baptist Church’s Family Life Center. There was a grand ole time had in a very electric atmosphere that boasted participants and honorees from both sides of the Savannah River and a speaker out of the […]

The Edgefield High School Class of 1944 held their 70th Class Reunion on Saturday, July 12, 2014, at the Pine Ridge Country Club. J. P. Calliham welcomed the class to the reunion and Betty Strom Carey gave a blessing over the prime rib dinner. Dot Ouzts Wofford called the roll after dinner with each in […]

Courtesy of the North Augusta Star where this story ran July 9 – By Scott Rodgers – Holly Mims, a 4K teacher at Merriwether Elementary School, will take the reins. She will continue her duties at the elementary school. “My daughter was on the team last year, and she came home in May and said […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Outstanding middle school students from across the United States will take part in an extraordinary leadership development experience, the 2014 Junior National Young Leaders Conference (JrNYLC): Foundations of Leadership I, an Envision program. The program provides a historical view of leadership and encourages young scholars to develop their own leadership skills and […]